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Eurotunnel shuts down car service

21st December 2009 Eurotunnel has closed its shuttle car service and advised day trip passengers to go home. The company is citing "severe technical problems" following Eurostar's train breakdowns which have stranded and delayed tens of thousands of passengers since Friday. Eurostar is a separate company from Eurotunnel.

Eurotunnel said the terminal was at "saturation point" because passengers who wanted to travel at the weekend but postponed because of the bad weather, had turned up today.

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